Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao is the Chairman of Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation; Adjunct Research Fellow/Professor of Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica; Chair Professor of Hakka Studies, National Central University; and Senior Advisor to the President of Taiwan since 2016. His current research areas include: middle class, civil society and democracy in Asia, social transition to de-carbonized society in Taiwan and comparative Hakka studies in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. His most recent book publications are: The Diverse Manifestations of Hakka Ethnicity in Southeast Asia

(co-editor, 2024); Southeast Asia, Ethnic Chinese Hakka, and Taiwan’s New Residents (co-editor, 2024); Sociology of Decarbonization: The Public Opinion and Challenges of Taiwan’s Net-Zero Transition (co-author, 2024); Writing Taiwan’s Third Sector History

(co-editor, 2023); Three Divides: Transformation of Hakka Ethnic Politics in Taiwan (co-author, 2022); The Many Faces of Taiwan’s Cultural Diplomacy (co-editor, 2022); The Ethnic Relations of Hakka Belts in Taiwan and Malaysia (co-editor, 2022).